单词 | attached |
释义 | attachedadj. I. Senses corresponding to attach v. I. 1. Law. Seized by legal authority; seized and taken into legal custody, arrested; seized under a writ of attachment. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [adjective] > arrested apprehended1595 attached1611 shoulder-clapped1796 popped1849 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Saisi, seised, laied hold on..attached, arrested. 1682 Laws of Barbados 9 May (1699) 145 The Charge and Trouble of..driving the attached Effects of Moveables to Market-Towns..shall be paid..to the Church-wardens or Constables,..out of the attached Effects of the Debtor or Offender. 1736 G. Webb Office & Authority of Justice of Peace 26 If the Defendant shall not, within Three Days, satisfy the Debt and Costs, such Officer shall sell by Auction to the highest Bidder, the Goods attached. 1800 A. Cullen Princ. Bankrupt Law iii. iii. 146 A creditor having attached property in America, has not been admitted to prove without giving up his attachment. 1857 Rep. Supreme Court Missouri 24 49 The remedy of the party who pays under such circumstances must be against the attached debtor. 1872 F. Hilliard Law of Mortgages (ed. 4) II. xlvii. 529 The general object of the statute was..to bring the attached property into the general fund. 1915 Southern Reporter 68 167/2 When concealment and fraudulent disposition and conversion of his property by attached defendant is in evidence [etc.]. 1953 Wisconsin Statutes 3037 If any of the attached property belonging to the defendant shall have passed out of the hands of the sheriff without having been sold or converted into money [etc.]. 1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 28 July 32/1 The High Court yesterday temporarily blocked the sale of attached goods belonging to the Minister for Research, Science and Technology. II. Senses corresponding to attach v. II. 2. Joined by taste, predilection, affection, or sympathy; partial, fond, affectionate, devoted. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > affection > [adjective] chisa700 lovewendeOE lovingOE lovelyOE kinda1375 fond1539 fainingc1540 affectionate1576 affectioned1578 affectiousc1580 affectionateda1586 affecting1600 dear1609 affective1613 affectional1689 attached1734 aff1752 warm1765 lovey1920 the mind > emotion > love > affection > [adjective] > joined by affection attached1734 1734 Monthly Intelligencer Mar. 159/1 He..concluded with his best Wishes for the Church and University, to which he declared himself a firm and attached Friend. 1795 T. C. Smythe in tr. Virgil Episode of Aristaeus Ep. Ded. p. ii May the most indulgent of Fathers long continue to bless our little Circle, is the fervent wish of Your very attached And dutiful Son, Percy Clinton Smythe. 1839 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 318/1 This thought must allay the keen regrets of an affectionate and attached family. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. vi. 328 Voltaire is, by nature, an attached or attachable creature. 1920 Sister Mary of St. Philip i. 8 A devotedly attached wife, a loving, sensitive mother, she found it hard to leave her husband and her seven little children. 2007 K. Whitehorn Selective Memory vii. 201 They remained a devotedly attached couple for fifty-seven years. 3. Joined or related practically or functionally; connected as a corollary, closely associated. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [adjective] > associated adjunct1516 annexed1555 accompanied1659 attached1752 associated1830 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > semi-column or inserted inserted1728 semicolumnar1793 attached1879 semi-engaged1886 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 473 Neither any Part of the Arch, or the attached Rays were coloured, but perfectly white, and exceeding bright. 1820 Monthly Rev. 93 App. 37 The suppression of contracts of apprenticeship, and of the attached privileges, has developed a spirit of enterprise and competition. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters xviii The minister of an attached provincial congregation. 1879 J. Ruskin Lett. to Clergy 4 Are the clergymen..simply the attached and salaried guides of England? c1916 D. Beatty in J. H. Wiener Great Brit. (1972) I. 683 The attached cruisers..carried out their duties as repeating ships with remarkable rapidity and accuracy. 2015 Times (Nexis) 21 Feb. (Sport section) 9 José Mourinho spoke eloquently yesterday of football's power and its attached responsibility. 4. a. Joined or connected physically. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] annect?a1440 adjoined?1556 affixed1563 appendinga1661 alligateda1676 attached1777 1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 525 The fractional parts of a degree on both the attached and detached thermometers were noted only by estimation. 1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 133 The attached balls..by their centrifugal force either raised or lowered a stage. 1863 Reliquary Oct. 68 It [sc. a brooch] has also an attached silver chain. 1880 Standard 20 May 3 As fast as one [seal] is clubbed or shot the skinner with the sharp knife turns it out of its ‘jacket’, as the skin with the attached blubber is styled. 1913 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. ii. 41 In any epithelial cell the different physiological conditions at the free and the attached surfaces leads to this definite relation of cell structures which is called polarity. 1959 Vogue Oct. 180 Poplin anorak with attached hood. 2014 New Yorker 1 Sept. 28/2 We put on Groucho glasses with attached noses. b. Architecture. Directly adjoining; joined to a wall, etc., rather than standing clear; sharing a wall, not detached. ΚΠ 1791 Swinney's Birmingham & Stafford Chron. 21 July To be Sold..A capital modern Mansion-House..with numerous attached and detached Offices. 1820 J. N. Brewer Picture of Eng. II. 415 The Castle of Conisbrough..consists of the keep, or citadel, and parts of an attached wall, which surrounded the ballium, or court. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 149 The attached and detached shafts may be used alternately. 1936 Amer. Home Feb. 32/2 The architect planned..an attached garage wing. 1978 M. Girouard Life Eng. Country House xi. 314 An attached conservatory began to grow rare after 1900. 2006 R. W. Preucel Archaeological Semiotics iii. viii. 195 The report descripts the Eyrie as a square building with attached outhouses. c. Of a document, etc.: affixed or appended to another. Later also in electronic communications: added to an email, etc., as an attachment (attachment n. 6c). ΚΠ 1819 Cincinnatit Directory 93 When a separate, or attached, paper is used, for the conveyance or acknowledgement, the number of the tract must be specified at large. 1884 Sat. Rev. 19 Jan. 81/2 The cases communicated in many of the attached documents. 1949 Dieldrin (Interdepartmental Comm. Pest Control, Bureau Entomol. & Plant Quarantine, U.S. Dept. Agric.) 1 An insecticidal product..meeting the specifications set forth in the attached statement. 1979 Hewlett Packard Jrnl. June 8/1 Using keys on the IDS keyboard, the user can move a window left and right through an attached file to directly view records up to 160 characters long. 2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 July 3/2 The attached file was a trojan virus that..can send large amounts of spam e-mail. 5. Originally Military. Of a person or group: appointed or allocated to a unit, company, organization, etc., for service, esp. for special or temporary duties. ΚΠ 1780 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XV. 60 The militia and attached corps, were little short of 50,000 men. 1856 J. Abbott Handbk. Idiotcy 3 The College will be under a Medical Board, an attached Surgeon, Secretary, Matron, &c. 1929 Rattle of Theta Chi Feb. 31/2 William Brown, an attached officer connected with Florida's crack R. O. T. C. regiment. 1965 H. M. Cole Ardennes 221 The larger part of the attached company from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion had been called away. 2012 M. S. Hull Govt. of Paper iii. 135 The first solution was to appoint an officer to the department as an ‘advisor’... The attached officer was able to initiate projects within the department. 6. Zoology. Designating an animal that is typically fixed to one spot throughout its adult life; designating a stage in the life of an animal during which it is so fixed; = sessile adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [adjective] > stationary or free attached1851 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 7 Most of them [sc. Mollusca] are attached, or have no means of moving from place to place. 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 135 178 The argument drawn from the structure of the free Lucernarian would be stronger if the so-called attached species had been brought up from great depths. 1940 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 82 425 At no time has any attached stage of this species been observed by us. 2012 T. Garrison Essent. Oceanogr. (ed. 6) xiv. 333/1 Attached, or sessile, animals hang on tightly, often gaining assistance from rounded or very-low-profile shells, which deflect the violent forces of rushing water. 7. Of a person: married or involved in a romantic relationship. Cf. unattached adj. 4a.In later use frequently in the language of personal advertisements. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective] wedded?a800 spousedc1300 weda1400 marriedc1400 boundenc1426 conjugate1471 nuptial?1585 yoked1607 continuous1642 wedlock-bound1667 coupled1672 conjugated1690 partnered1775 mated1821 attached1898 1898 Philadelphia Med. Jrnl. 1 Jan. 4/1 It is seriously proposed..to control the output of ecclesiastical and civil marriage-mills... Congress seems to attribute the danger of financial ruin..to the attached woman. 1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 10 May One [sc. a girl] that has eyes for every unattached and attached male..is not exactly ideal. 1983 N.Y. Mag. 22 Aug. 110/3 (advt.) Attached gentleman, witty, cultured, elitist to share discreet romance. 1999 J. Whyte Fort at River's Bend xi. 224 ‘She'll be keeping some lucky lad warm on the cool nights. Is she attached?’ ‘No, not yet. She's..single.’ 2010 L. Scottoline Why my Third Husband will be Dog 132 I signed into the service, as an Attached Female Seeking Attached Males. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1611 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。